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The DDS Foundation has elected Mark Carrier as Vice President of Ecosystems. In this role, Mark will be responsible for growing the sphere of influence for the Data Distribution Service™ (DDS™) standard through outreach with organizations with companion specifications. DDS is a middleware protocol and API standard for data-centric connectivity for intelligent, distributed systems.
Today, globally recognized standards development group Object Management Group® (OMG®) and leading standards-development organization Health Level Seven International (HL7®) announce the transition of OMG’s BPM+ Health® Community into the HL7 family as the HL7 BPM Community. Established in 2019 under OMG, the BPM+ Health Community was created to advance sharable workflows, processes, and care practices across sites and settings of care through the leveraged use of open standards and formal notations.
The conversation centered around the importance of prioritizing software quality to improve productivity and reduce costs. The speakers highlighted the significant financial costs associated with software quality issues and emphasized the need for implementing and applying software security standards in the industry. They also discussed automated source code quality measures and the importance of software quality standards and certification.
The cost of poor software quality in the US has grown to at least $2.41 trillion as estimated by the Consortium for Information and Software Quality in 2022 and will continue to raise in 2024. The cost of bad code is a known problem that creates a disparity between the software delivery team, and the clients where the failure costs lead to defective systems, affecting the client’s reputation and project performance.
Thirty-five years ago, a group of technologists came together to support an object-oriented GUI from HP called New Wave. Bill Hoffman recalls: “Back then, there weren’t a lot of folks familiar with OO development.”
It turned out to be a longer run than he expected, because by showing they could shepherd projects along by bringing people to the table and getting agreement on what would become standards, The Object Management Group was founded, and this year is celebrating 35 years of existence.
The DDS Foundation announced the 20th anniversary of the Data Distribution Service (DDS) Specification. DDS is an open data connectivity standard that helps CIOs, system architects, software engineers and developers to deliver real-time data throughout their business critical IoT systems. The Object Management Group (OMG) maintains, optimizes and evolves the family of DDS Specifications via its rigorous standards processes.